New York Court of Appeals Roundup: Unusual World Trade Center Argument, Choice-of-Law, Tainted Marital Property
In their monthly column in the New York Law Journal, Roy Reardon and Mary Elizabeth McGarry discuss a decision in which the Court of Appeals' choice-of-law analysis led it to apply the laws of different jurisdictions to different tort claims arising out of a single accident. They also discuss a case in which the Court determined that money fraudulently obtained by an individual cannot be "followed by" its original owner into the hands of the individual's former spouse who acquired the money in a divorce proceeding in good faith, without knowledge of any fraud, and for consideration. In addition, they note an unusual reargument of Matter of World Trade Center Bombing Litigation Steering Committee v. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.